Public Lecture by Kris Manjapra – Associate Professor of History and Interim Director, Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University During the so-called Age of Liberalism (1830-1900), forced labor spread across the globe. Amidst discourses of abolition, the monumental migration of ‘indentured’ laborers from Asia to the West Indies was matched
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Event – Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
Public Lecture by Julia Ott – Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, The New School Most theories of capitalism set aside slavery as something utterly distinct because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage. An historical and empirical investigation, however, reveals that the factory
Event – A New Social Contract: Guaranteeing Dignity in a Precarious Economy
Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, Room I-202, New York, NY 10011 Please join us as we kick off the 2017 Henry Cohen Lecture series at the Milano School. The United States is one of the wealthiest countries the world has seen,
Event – Slavery Race Capitalism: Public Lectures
Historians’ recent investigations of the centrality of racialized chattel slavery to the origins of capitalism -along with activists’ efforts to expose the ongoing legacy of New World slavery – inspire a broad reconsideration of the connections between capitalism, race, and coerced labor across time and around the world. ‘Carceral capitalism,’ the question of reparations, ‘revenue-generating’
Public Seminar: McKenzie Wark on Black Accelerationism
Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, Mckenzie Wark explains how Black Accelerationism is a willful pushing forward which includes as part of its method an attempt to clear away certain habits of thought and feeling in order to be open to a future which is
David Allyn on Investment in Education for talented low-income students in the New York Daily News
Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program, David Allyn wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Daily News, advocating for urgent investment on gifted and talented programming in grades K-8, since “gifted students who stay trapped in regular classes grow bored, lose interest in school and fail to realize their full potential.” Read The brightest kids
Jan Dutkiewicz on the Moral Meat Market and Animal-Welfare Violations in Jacobin
Heilbroner Student Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz wrote a recent article in Jacobin, offering a critique on the supposedly moral meat market and its animal-welfare violations, exposing “how hollow the rhetoric of corporate responsibility is” when it comes to protecting animals from gruesome and violent abuses. Read The Moral Meat Market in Jacobin
Event – Johan Mathew, “Unveiling Money: Counterfeits, Arbitrage, and Finance Across the Arabian Sea”
Wednesday, December 7 at 6:00pm Room 529, 80 Fifth Avenue Next in the History Speaker Series is Johan Mathew from Rutgers University, with a talk titled “Unveiling Money: Counterfeits, Arbitrage, and Finance Across the Arabian Sea.” Johan Mathew is an economic historian with a particular interest in crime and illicit commerce and how they shape
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on football and American conservatism in The Guardian
Heilbroner Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of History Natalia Mehlman Petrzela contributed to a recent article in The Guardian, offering a historical account of how conservative American politicians have used football to “mak[e] a broader point about the unfortunate feminization of American culture” in the twentieth century. Read Will the NFL go back to being its brutal old self
Event – Film Screening: 13th, Ava DuVernay’s documentary on mass incarceration
Tuesday, November 29 at 8:00pm Join the Kerrey Hall Social Justice Collective for a screening of 13th, a new documentary on mass incarceration from acclaimed Selma director, Ava DuVernay. Professors Mia White and Julia Ott will be facilitating a conversation after the film has ended. Snacks will be provided. Kerrey Hall is located at 65 5th Avenue.